Features

Getting to Mars (for Real)

Humans have been dreaming of living on the Red Planet for decades. Harvard researchers are on the case.

by Olivia Farrar

Quantum Art

Chemist, physisist, and artist Eric Heller harnesses the computer to render stunning images of minute natural phenomena

by Craig Lambert

Places, People, Policies

An agenda for America's urban poor

Bloodless Revolution

Twenty-first-century surgery

by Harbour Fraser ...

John Gilbert Winant

Brief life of an exemplary public servant: 1889-1947

Antioch Revealed

Treasures from an ancient city dazzle in a new exhibit

"An Instrument of Good Will"

At 75, the Harvard College Fund spins a web of friendships.

by John T. Bethell

The World's Poor

A Harvard Magazine Roundtable

The Short List

On picking a president

Russia’s “Loose Nukes”

The continuing threat to American security

Lasting Impressions

An ancient craft's surprising legacy in Harvard's museums--and laboratories